Glenn Beck's final show of the year. We talk about the President's call to Congress for $1.5 billion in the form of a "Warrior Dividend" to go to our veterans and families. Also, Harmeet Dillon from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division talks about what's coming and what's happening.
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00:03:48.060He said every 1.45 million military personnel are going to receive $1,776 before Christmas.
00:03:59.080And he says it's recognition for their service and sacrifice.
00:04:02.220He says one time it's coming from tariffs because the big, beautiful bill tonight.
00:04:08.340I'm proud to announce more than 1.45 million service members will receive a special we call warrior dividend, a warrior dividend in honor of our nation's founding in 1776.
00:04:49.380That will make an actual impact in the people's lives who I think actually deserve, you know, we, we, we, we don't do enough for our military.
00:04:59.140Um, and so it's the best kind of, I don't know, stimulus package I've ever seen.
00:05:06.580Although this isn't a stimulus package, I don't think, um, you know, these people are going to pump it into the, I can guarantee you they're going to get it and they're going to use it on their family for Christmas, which, you know, will stimulate the.
00:05:47.640And, but I had a couple of concerns, one being, you know, we're not exactly at a place where we just have tons of extra money lying around to, you know, to throw around, uh, to people.
00:05:59.660I know the argument is with tariffs, uh, that we have enough, but of course that pays only for a slight amount of our deficit.
00:06:11.060And number two, uh, my under, and I don't really understand, maybe you have a better understanding of this, but like my understanding of the mechanism of how we spend money as a government is that the Congress passes a bill to allocate money.
00:06:24.780When you're talking about a policy like this.
00:06:27.480And I, I, I think the president's heart.
00:06:46.480Now, and the other thing with this part of it, particularly Glenn, is quite obviously there would be very little resistance to a bill that did this.
00:06:56.980If you put a bill in front of Congress that said, we're going to give a bonus of $1,776 to all of our military members, I, I would love to do it just to dare the Democrats to vote against it.
00:07:08.340Like even take out all the concerns about spending.
00:07:10.500This obviously would pass because no one would have the balls to vote against it outside of like Rand Paul and Thomas Massey.
00:07:17.780Like that, there'd be a couple people, but it'd be pretty limited.
00:07:21.680So it could have gone through the normal processes.
00:07:25.100I don't know if Trump is just saying like, I want to be, you know, I, I, I want to dare someone to try to stop me here.
00:07:31.720Or if it's just, look, there's a pile of money in a military budget somewhere that he can move around and he has control of it because he's commander in chief.
00:07:39.440I don't really understand the mechanism.
00:07:42.740But, you know, of course, generally speaking, when you're thinking of the most offensive things that the government does, giving our military more money is nowhere near the top of that list.
00:08:50.780I mean, that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:08:52.600There's not a chance we come back on January 5th and we say, oh, my gosh, look, wow, they're going to close down the government because they didn't pass this health care thing?
00:09:05.260Well, good for the Republicans for having a spine and standing up.
00:09:24.640I don't know because basically what has happened is enough Republicans have already folded on this for a three-year extension of these subsidies,
00:09:33.880which, again, is a giveaway on top of the normal Obamacare to make it Obamacare turbo and lock in even higher subsidies because the old Obamacare plan failed.
00:09:45.160So that is what we're talking about here.
00:09:47.140So going back to Obamacare as passed is now the worst thing in the world to even the Democrats.
00:09:54.360But they have enough Republicans who have changed sides on this and they are now the Democrats have enough votes to force a vote on this bill, which almost definitely will pass the House because they already have the votes and other Republicans will want to now change sides that there's a public vote.
00:10:29.480My guess is what happens is once the pressure is there, they find a way to maybe adjust it and do a year or something like that that gets them past the election.
00:10:42.680But, of course, what happens in a year?
00:10:44.940And we all know what happens in a year.
00:10:46.600It's the same thing that's going to happen this year.
00:10:48.160It's the same thing that happened four years ago when the first part of this bill went away in 2022 or 2021.
00:10:55.400They came in and they said, OK, let's extend it for four more years.
00:10:57.580So my guess is there's probably going to be some adjustments to this plan.
00:11:02.560But I do not expect at all the Republicans to hold the line on this.
00:11:05.720Not only do they no longer want to get rid of Obamacare, they don't even want to get rid of Obamacare Turbo.
00:11:11.540It's, you know, they passed this thing yesterday, which does give them the argument to say, hey, we did pass something.
00:12:20.940I really do expect if we had a 9-0 Supreme Court, the presidency and 534 combined congressmen and senators, they say we got to get that last one.
00:12:29.920We can't do this with this guy over here.
00:12:39.080But, you know, it reminds you that your goals are not their goals.
00:12:44.740You know, that's what I keep coming back to forever.
00:12:47.680Glenn, when we started this show, I will say I started the show very young.
00:12:51.780You know, I was in my early 20s and didn't really understand lots of things.
00:12:55.280I was unfortunately learning from you, which have obviously turned into a catastrophe.
00:12:58.900But, you know, as I learned here at the beginning, my thought was us as conservatives, as Republicans, as the right agree on a lot of different things.
00:13:10.860And there are disagreements as to how we get there.
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00:19:26.580No, she is the, she's the DOJ's assistant attorney general for civil rights.
00:19:31.440Harmeet, let's start with the, let's start with what's happening with the cases in several different states on what happened in 2020.
00:19:42.580What have you found and what's being done about it?
00:19:46.860Well, I can't really talk about either of those things, but what I can say is that there's a lot of concern about, about the weaponization of the Department of Justice.
00:19:57.640And, and, and beyond weaponization, abuse of process that happened here.
00:20:03.740I mean, the recent story in the news, of course, that people are talking about is the raid on the president's home in Mar-a-Lago, where apparently, you know, the federal government here, the Department of Justice, was aware that it was not supported by probable cause.
00:20:20.900And a political decision was made to override that and weaponize the DOJ.
00:20:26.040And, of course, the other side keeps gaslighting us for doing this, but we're trying to play things by the book.
00:20:32.300So we do our investigations and we go where the evidence leads us.
00:20:35.860And I can tell you there's a keen interest in this Department of Justice to hold people accountable for abusing the civil rights of American citizens, including the president, who is an American and is entitled to the same civil rights as you and I and everybody else.
00:20:49.560And so we're, we're really focused on it.
00:20:53.000So, Harmeet, honestly, when that story came out about the FBI this week, when these stories break, it's nothing new.
00:21:53.700They're across the street and they have their own leadership and management.
00:21:57.480And, you know, the prior administration hid a lot of things over there.
00:22:03.040We know that from stories that are unfolding and the work that they're doing over there.
00:22:07.340And so I can't open up a investigation without some evidence.
00:22:14.560And so when evidence comes in, then we're able to start an investigation.
00:22:18.560And unlike the other side, we don't sort of start with a conclusion and then try to find evidence that Cherry Pick said.
00:22:24.800We find the evidence and then we go and follow where that leads us.
00:22:28.820And so in my case, one of the statutes that I administer here is the is the Klan Act and federal conspiracy statutes, including, you know, Section 241 and 242.
00:22:41.500They talk about a conspiracy to violate rights.
00:22:47.640Typically, most of our jurisdiction here at the Civil Rights Division involves state actors violating federal civil rights and not so much federal actors.
00:22:56.460But in theory, there could be private individuals, potentially federal actors, if you can pierce appropriate immunities who conspire to violate civil rights.
00:23:08.480And so the conspiracy cases involve connecting multiple dots and multiple sometimes people across states and jurisdictions.
00:23:19.800And what we have here, just to be zooming out, is multiple cases that were brought against the president in multiple jurisdictions involving multiple state actors.
00:23:28.360So at a minimum, I think every state actor involved in these conspiracies should be concerned.
00:23:33.320Whether or not we can tie feds into that or private people, you know, it's going to be an interesting legal question.
00:23:41.160And there are a lot of qualified immunities and privileges that we have to pierce through to get there.
00:23:46.380So I'll just leave it at that. It is it is complicated.
00:23:49.180It is challenging. But there's an appetite to do it, because if we don't hold people accountable for grossly violating our civil rights, including but not limited to judges signing off on wiretapping and invasion of communications of attorneys.
00:24:05.400I mean, I'm kind of mad about that because I've seen my name on the Arctic Cross list and the name of my law firm who represented, you know, numerous political parties involved in the 2020 election, the president, the president's campaign and others.
00:24:18.300If we let that lie, you know, this just becomes like Venezuela or some other tin pot dictatorship.
00:24:25.600We lose our ability to hold our heads up as the paragon of the rule of law in the world.
00:24:30.540And so I think it's very important that we do that. Now, I mean, I will tell you, just to be frank, you know, some folks come into the DOJ, they want to burnish their credentials a bit and then go back out and, you know, do their next thing and their focus is on that.
00:24:47.480And then there's some of us who are kind of true believers and feel like, you know, this is our mission in life to make sure this country that we love stays this country that we love.
00:24:59.240And I'm one of those people. So I've got a lot of other patriots here like me.
00:25:03.500And so we're we're looking at these facts carefully and seeing what we can do with them.
00:25:07.460I just I know you have to be very, very careful, and I don't want to put you in a bad situation.
00:25:15.500So I just, you know, I want to be careful.
00:25:20.720Do you think that the people at the FBI and the DOJ in all levels realize that because I know you do.
00:25:31.880Do they realize how to the end the American people are that they're starting to lose faith?
00:25:40.700If we don't start to see people at least charged and have a fair trial, I'm not even saying that they go to jail.
00:25:49.060Hopefully they would if they broke a law.
00:25:52.240But, you know, showing these people because we keep getting investigation after investigation after investigation.
00:25:57.060And then it just sits there, you know, there's a story out today about, you know, the Clinton Foundation and all the investigations, what they found.
00:26:05.800I don't have any faith that they're nobody.
00:26:09.400Nobody's going to go for jail, go to jail for that.
00:26:11.240And we're at this place to where it's up to the DOJ and the FBI to do their job and then start bringing some justice.
00:26:21.800Because if we lose in 28 and you haven't cleaned up and set clear rules of the law does matter, all these people got away with it last time.
00:26:36.200It's going to be a thousand times worse in 2028.
00:26:59.380I had about 400 attorneys plus working in my department.
00:27:02.480I have one third of that now, because when I set the rules of what we're going to do here in this department, two thirds of the people peaced out and quit.
00:27:11.340And some of the ones who are left behind are leaking to the press what we are doing.
00:27:16.060And so that's the fight in my department.
00:27:18.260OK, and then you look at where does most of this work occur when you look at the hundreds of thousands, over 100,000 people who work at the Department of Justice.
00:27:26.280Well, it's only the very top, top, top layer of that that is politically appointed and committed to the president's agenda.
00:27:34.400I would say the vast majority of that agency is, you know, legacy doing what they're doing, much of which was not good for America, I'm going to say.
00:27:44.380And then I don't mean to malign every agent out there.
00:27:48.080But the leadership has not been great.
00:27:49.820The people who've gotten to the top, like even in the last administration of the president, 45, James Comey and some of these others, Christopher Wray, you know, Republicans in name only and enemies of what the American voters wanted.
00:28:05.120And they've shown that time and again and what we know publicly.
00:28:09.140And then you look at the fact that I need to work with 94 United States attorneys to get just about anything I do done, whether it's a hate crime prosecution or civil cases that I bring.
00:28:19.180And in some of the top jurisdictions, we can't get those people confirmed because of a dumb blue slip process that is not in the Constitution, that is not in law.
00:28:29.560It is a made up courtesy of ancient times.
00:28:32.640And I'm sorry, these United States senators are wedded to it.
00:29:23.900But do you feel that I mean, because it kind of sounds let me put it this way.
00:29:33.860Is there a possibility to do to the DOJ and FBI and everything else the things that Hegseth has done to the Pentagon that was riddled with all kinds of people that shouldn't have been in there?
00:29:45.740Or is it just a different thing where you just can't go in and say you're out because it's not it's it's not military?
00:29:53.740Because he's he seems to be changing and we seem to have our arms around the military, at least.
00:30:43.640And we're looking at the conspiracy cases that can be brought in places where we have a confirmed United States attorney and and, you know, favorable makeup of the courts.
00:31:02.280Every single voting rights case that I have brought in the United States has multiple interveners, the ACLU and the League of Women Voters and yada, yada, yada.
00:31:12.520And then I said, now that I'm sort of one brief after file for breach, you know, so that's like what we're dealing with here with a small staff.
00:31:18.360And everyone knows that I'm not giving any trade secrets away here.
00:31:20.720That's the whole point of what they do.
00:31:23.500I think people don't realize when I see the criticism, every time I post something that I've done here or an investigation I've opened, there's a thousand negative comments from people on supposedly on my side.
00:31:32.460And it's demoralizing to the lawyers here because no one gave up gave up their successful practice to come here and and just be criticized all day.
00:31:40.340And that's why people don't stay in the government.
00:31:41.880You know, I'm not surprised that people are talking about leaving at this point.
00:31:46.140It's demoralizing to be here and just be criticized all day.
00:31:48.520So so that's that's a function of of our social media world or what have you.
00:31:53.460But I can tell you that I am joined here by, you know, so many patriots who some of them gave up very comfortable lives like I did to come here and serve their country and were determined that I will consider it a failure for sure.
00:32:07.140If I leave here and nothing was changed and nobody was charged and nobody was held accountable for the gross violations of our civil rights, because that will simply be a green light for it to happen again, happen harder and perhaps with no recourse and no ability to win an election in the future.
00:32:24.000I mean, if we'd had H.R.1 passed, for example, you know, who knows what would have happened in this election cycle because we've got permanent like, you know, vote by mail and no accountability.
00:38:42.640And then I just think God honored a moment where a suffering, grieving widow just said,
00:38:50.980Hey, before anything is said, I want two hours of uninterrupted worship to God in honor of Charlie.
00:38:58.600And I think that just that kind of before we say anything, before we have a president on stage, before we, before she even gets on stage for her to say, I want the people that we listen to in our home when we want worship music on to come and just to sing out the name of Jesus and the gospel.
00:39:42.800I mean, I was talking to people who are not necessarily, you know, big Christians or, you know, and, and they were saying, do you feel this?
00:40:00.740Well, there's a long story that I won't bore you with, but the short story is that I just happened to know someone that knew someone that knew someone that knew that the company that was putting on this movie, the animation studio was striking out, trying to find the voice of adult David.
00:40:15.160And after they tried Broadway, they tried, you know, the professional actors, they tried professional, some singers in the pop world.
00:40:22.420They just thought, well, maybe we should try out some people that actually sing the songs of David as a living.
00:40:28.000And, uh, and so they, they went, they looked kind of in the Christian worship leader realm.
00:40:33.280And, and my name was on a list and someone was in the room at the same time.
00:40:37.920And they said, I really think you could fill a call.
00:40:39.640And it just was, you know, how people, if maybe if you got some church people listening out there, there's a, there's a phrase that I grew up listening to.
00:40:46.920Cause my dad's a minister, you know, when something, something you can't explain, they said, well, that must've been a God thing, you know?
00:40:53.480And, uh, and that's what it felt like.
00:40:55.580And honestly, Glenn, when I got, when I kind of heard that I was in consideration, my eight year old self that, that like bought the Lion King soundtrack and was jumping around, like singing along to the Lion King.
00:41:07.900So I just, I've always had this secret dream of animate, of voicing an animated character, but I never pursued it.
00:41:14.280It never, I never thought it would be on my, you know, come across my desk.
00:41:18.300But when this came across and the fact that it's David, I mean, man, I mean, for lack of better words, I've plagiarized so many of David's songs.
00:41:34.280Uh, so, so to do this character that I've known about my whole life that has inspired this story, David and Goliath has inspired billions of people.
00:41:42.340And, and, and just what, in my mind, when I thought of families going in and young people being awakened to the stories of God that we know from the Bible and fresh new ways, it just, there was so many boxes that checked for me that I just remember thinking, man, if I can't act, I don't want to do this.
00:41:58.500And I told them, I was like, I'm unoffendable.
00:42:00.820If I'm horrible at this, just kick me out the door.
00:42:03.380I don't want to be horrible in a movie as much as you don't want to be horrible in a movie.
00:42:06.940But if I can do this, I would, I'll work so hard.
00:42:10.680So anyways, I'm already going longer than I wanted to, but after a couple auditions, some moments of prayer, I got a call and I was in airport.
00:42:18.200They said, Hey, you know, we, we'd love what you brought in the auditions.
00:42:21.160They're like, what's your middle name again?
00:42:24.440And they're like, well, how, how would you like that to be your, your first name in a movie?
00:42:28.000And so that was about a year and a half ago.
00:42:29.980And it's been a beautiful, beautiful journey.
00:42:32.680And now I can't believe it's coming out tomorrow.
00:42:34.300I have to tell you, um, you know, there's one thing when you can write and sing music in some ways, you kind of live forever.
00:42:46.540You know, I, there's songs that, you know, artists that I listened to from time to time that I really love.
00:42:53.080And, you know, they don't know that they're still impacting me or anybody else.
00:42:58.100Um, and when it comes to music and animation, you're in the hearts of children forever.
00:43:07.300And I, I understand what you're saying about, you know, wanting to be in the, you know, in the animated world, like, you know, you as an eight year old kid with the lion King, cause it's a totally different thing.
00:43:21.660I mean, I just, I remember when my girls who are now, you know, 14, uh, 12 and 10, but, you know, frozen was huge when they were just really young, you know, those songs were all over the place in my house, in my car, you know, and, uh, and to think that I could bring those kinds of moments into family's life.
00:43:45.560But it's not just songs about ice and snow, but, but it's songs that carry, which are beautiful in their own right.
00:43:54.060These are songs that carry like the hope and truth and ideas that we get out of the Bible about trusting in God and faith.
00:44:01.260And, you know, there's a light, there's a, there's a, there's a theme through the whole movie about like, follow the light, the word of God, you know, David is in the song that says, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
00:44:13.240And there's this spot, there's this theme of God being our shepherd and that we can trust him and that he's with us.
00:44:18.060And just for those kinds of themes to sink in through such a fun, beautiful, uh, medium, you know, and then what a cool thing about these movies having songs is that, you know, 20%, 15%, whatever it is of the movie are these, are these things, you know, it's not easy to remember scripts, you know, or, or lines.
00:44:36.540You kind of remember how it made you feel, but when you go home and your kids are saying in the back, Hey, turn on, turn on the soundtrack.
00:44:42.540Like the ideas in the story of that movie sink deep, deep down in your heart.
00:44:47.280And so to be a part of that, I'll just, I'll end that, this moment with like one story.
00:44:52.180When I, when I went to the first screening, I ever saw this movie, I, side note, I was very nervous because I was in a room full of professional actors and directors.
00:45:03.560Like, I hope I didn't mess this thing up, you know, um, but I'm watching it and it was beautiful.
00:45:08.460And right in front of me, I didn't notice until the end, but when the lights came on in the theater, it was this young boy, he probably wasn't older than seven.
00:45:14.560He turns to his mom with these wide eyes and just says, is that really what God did?
00:45:21.000Like it awakens something in his heart.
00:45:23.200And I, I couldn't help, but get misty eyed because all of the last year and a half of working on this movie and being a part of it and dreaming about it was for moments like that of, of kids and young people and families being awakened to this idea that we're not alone, that this isn't just a once upon a time fairy tale, but these are stories that have been handed down for generations of what I believe are truths.
00:45:47.040And, and, uh, I just really hope this brings hope into a world that is desperate for it and light into a world where we are so confronted with the darkness lately.
00:45:57.660I just, I'm just so excited for this movie to come out.
00:46:01.300It is out tomorrow in theaters, December 19th.